A History of Australia, Volume 4This fourth volume continues the story [of the history of Australia] from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia on January 26 1888. Its vital theme concerns the debate in Australian about the life of man without God; and the impending breakdown of bourgeois society, succeeded by an age of ruins. |
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... began to wear on his face that ' peculiarly captivating grin ' of the man whose only chance was to remain ingratiating . By contrast another man who was tormented all his life by a sense of shame in his family's past , Charles Dickens ...
... began to wear on his face that ' peculiarly captivating grin ' of the man whose only chance was to remain ingratiating . By contrast another man who was tormented all his life by a sense of shame in his family's past , Charles Dickens ...
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... began to change . He lost the suggestion of the visionary in the Rodius portrait and began to take on the likeness of a man who was fighting not for some great cause but for survival in the political bear - pit . From that time whenever ...
... began to change . He lost the suggestion of the visionary in the Rodius portrait and began to take on the likeness of a man who was fighting not for some great cause but for survival in the political bear - pit . From that time whenever ...
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... began with a ceremony designed to plant a dual patriotism in the minds of the children by asking them to repeat together a profession of their love both for their country and for the Queen of the country from which their ancestors had ...
... began with a ceremony designed to plant a dual patriotism in the minds of the children by asking them to repeat together a profession of their love both for their country and for the Queen of the country from which their ancestors had ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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